DH Lawrence Travelogue

• Voice?

  Liberated

  Euphoric / excitement

  Inspired
• Context?

  Controversial for a historian to explore his sexuality in his work

  Lived in voluntary exile in Sicily

  Critical of dehuminising effects of industrialisation and moderninity

  Biographical travelogue
• Audiences?

  Fans / for critics and persecutors?

  Himself - for catharsis and reflection

  Travel writing readers
• Purpose?

  For catharsis and reflection

  To explore travels.
• Key technique

  Contrast of complex vs minor, fragmented conversational sentences = richness, breadth and a never-ending beauty, the pace reflecting the meandering journey (travelogue)
• Context 2?


  Influential writer of the 20th century, known for his controversy

  Home in Sicily

  Exiled (voluntary, due to persecution facing at home), calling it a 'savage pilgrimage' - exploring self

  Work pushed boundaries being about sex, incestuous relationships etc...

  Eloped with married woman, accused of being a spy twice.
• Romantics, modernist lyrical 'prose poetry' style - nature is self, alienation, damage of industry
• Mode 


  Travelogue feeling like an autobiography
• ''the sky all golden, all a joyous, fire-heated gold.' 


  colour symbolism 'gold' connoting material value, yet subverted when describing natural beauty.
• 'wide morning' 


  adjective creates a sense of endless mornings, possibilities = inspired voice
• Key techniques?


  Figurative and sensory languageRepetition adds rhythm and poetic tone
• All about escaping the traditional, rigid world of England, being judged in the way he was.